Grants & Awards New Grants Address Student and Community Needs
Recently, Harcum received several grants to support Harcum students pursuing associate’s degrees in numerous professions, and in turn, impacting the communities they will serve: A gift from THE W.W. SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST will expand the number of Harcum’s “Smith Scholars,” students with academic Kathleen Devaney is a first-year OTA major and a “Smith promise from the five-county Philadelphia Scholar,” who said she chose Harcum because of its comregion and City of Camden. Since 2017, the petitive OTA program. The scholarship will help her afford Trust has helped 20 Harcum students to books, gas for the commute, and she’ll not have to worry as pursue their degrees. much about tuition. For the second consecutive year, THE HUSTON FOUNDATION awarded scholarship funding for Chester County students with a preference for Coatesville Partnership Site students. New support from the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Professional Development Organization at PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION will help impact the degree completion rate while supporting ECE majors. Led by Harcum’s ECE program, the project builds on momentum gained from prior assistance. The new grant provides for mentors, summer course scholarships, a new course on infection control, a speakers series, and memberships in the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), which accredits Early Childhood Education Program Director Harcum’s program. Joanne Ricevuto and Assistant Program Director Youth courts help keep individuals who have committed Christine Carlson teach and mentor all the relatively minor offenses out of the court system. With ECE students at Bryn Mawr Campus and the funding from THE FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE Partnership Sites. COUNTY, Director of Youth Courts Gregg Volz, will guide a project to change the school to prison pipeline. With a focus on Delaware County, the goals are to deliver training to schools, design a juvenile justice youth court, and begin to create a Youth Court Resource Center.
Harcum@Coatesville observed an intimate celebration for their 2021 graduates on May 4 at Graystone Manor.
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